Even as the clouds over the Confederacy grow ever darker–or perhaps because the future of the South looks so bleak–the veneration of the deceased Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson as a Southern saint is well underway. Having died less than a year ago, Jackson’s image is the subject of much debate among those who vie…
Early spring has arrived, and with it the promise of the large-scale resumption of battles. Today’s minor military happenings merely serve as preludes to the great clashes which are surely to come. Among the day’s developments are the capture of a Confederate outpost at Cherry Grove, Virginia and skirmishes in Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri. The…
The current state of Southern Baptist thought and life has become so complex as to defy easy categorization. Southern Baptist newspapers, typically owned and published by well-to-do Baptists who represent the views of denominational leadership, deliver weekly dollops of defiance against the abolitionist United States, adding regular doses of optimism evidenced by this or that…